Clementine Homily III
Accordingly, therefore, prophesying concerning the temple, He said: `See ye these buildings? Verily I say to you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another which shall not be taken away; and this generation shall not pass until the destruction begin. For they shall come, and shall sit here, and shall besiege it, and shall slay your children here.'[4]
Verse 43. _CAST A TRENCH ABOUT THEE_] This was literally fulfilled when this city was besieged by _Titus_. _Josephus_ gives a very particular account of the building of this wall, which he says was e...
HE WEPT OVER IT - Showing his compassion for the guilty city, and his strong sense of the evils that were about to come upon it. See the notes at Matthew 23:37. As he entered the city he passed over t...
V. IN JERUSALEM -- CHAPTER 19:28-21:38 CHAPTER 19:28-48 _ 1. The Triumphal Entry in Jerusalem. (Luke 19:28 .)_ 2. Weeping over Jerusalem. (Luke 19:41 .) 3. The Purification of the Temple. (Luke 19...
THE FALL OF JERUSALEM PREDICTED (Lk. only)._ Cf._ the words of Jesus to the daughters of Jerusalem, Luke 23:28. The passage takes the place of the withering of the fig-tree narrated by Mk. and Mt., wh...
THE GUEST OF THE MAN WHOM ALL MEN DESPISED (Luke 19:1-10)...
When Jesus had come near, and when he saw the city, he wept over it. "Would that, even today, he said, "you recognised the things which would give you peace! But as it is, they are hidden from your ey...
THE DAYS. days. TRENCH. rampart. Greek _charax._ Occurs only here. Compare Isaiah 29:3; Isaiah 29:4; Isaiah 37:33....
_the days_ often used of troublous times, like the Latin _tempora._ shall cast a trench about thee Rather, SHALL SURROUND THEE WITH A PALISADE, Isaiah 29:3-4; Isaiah 37:33, LXX. Literally fulfilled f...
JESUS WEEPING OVER JERUSALEM...
ἩΜΈΡΑΙ. Often used of troublous times, like the Latin _tempora_. ΠΕΡΙΒΑΛΟΥ͂ΣΙΝ … ΧΆΡΑΚΆ ΣΟΙ. ‘Shall surround thee with a palisade,’ Isaiah 29:3-4; Isaiah 37:33, LXX[336] χάραξ in Polybius means a pali...
41. And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, 42. Saying, If you had known, even you, at least in this your day, the things which belong to your peace! but now they are hid from...
ΟΤΙ (G3754) что, вводит дополнение при ΈΓΝΩΣ (Marshall); или "из-за" объясняет, почему Иисус оплакивает город, ΉΞΟΥΣΙΝ _fut. ind. act. от_ ΉΚ (G2240) приходить. Рассказ очевидца об осаде и разрушении...
SHALL CAST A TRENCH ABOUT THEE,— Jesus here foretold particularly the principal circumstances of the siege of Jerusalem, and with his prophesy the event corresponded most exactly; for when Titus attac...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 4 Peace (Luke 19:41-44) 41 And when he drew near and saw the city he wept over it,42saying, Would that even today you knew the things that make for peace! But now they are...
For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, FOR THE DAYS SHALL COME, [ hoti (G3754 ) heexousin (G22...
14 Compare Joh_1:11; Joh_19:15. 27 Compare Rev_19:11-21. 28-36 Compare Mat_21:1-8; Mar_1:1-8. 28 This entry into Jerusalem marks one of the most important days in the history of the holy people. The...
ENEMIES] i.e. the Romans. A TRENCH] lit. 'a palisade.' The Romans actually raised a palisade round Jerusalem. The Jews burnt it, and the Romans replaced it by a wall....
CHRIST WEEPS OVER JERUSALEM (PECULIAR TO LK). 'The path mounts again; it climbs a rugged ascent; it reaches a ledge of smooth rock, and in an instant the whole city bursts into view. As now the dome o...
ZACCELEUS. THE POUNDS. CHRIST'S TRIUMPHAL ENTRY INTO JERUSALEM. HE CLEANSES THE TEMPLE 1-10. Zacchaeus (peculiar to Lk). The narrative shows that our Lord's familiar intercourse with publicans and si...
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 19 JESUS AND ZACCHAEUS 19:1-10 V1 Jesus was walking through the city of Jericho. V2 The chief *tax-collector there was Zacchaeus. He was very rich. V...
THE DAYS SHALL COME UPON THEE. We again come upon a cluster of words peculiar, as far as the New Testament is concerned, to St. Luke, and belonging to the higher forms of historical composition. SHALL...
_Pharisces murmur and Jesus weeps_, peculiar to Lk. ἀπὸ τοῦ ὄχλου, from within the crowd, or on account of the crowd and what they had been saying = _prae turba_ as in Luke 19:3. Loesner cites from Ph...
_Jesus weeps at sight of the city and laments its doom_. ὡς = when, as in many places in Lk. ἔκλαυσεν ἐπʼ α., He wept aloud, like Peter (Mark 14:72). δακρύειν = to shed tears silently; for a group of...
ὅτι, for, because, introducing a prophetic picture of coming ruin, either to explain the εἰ ἔγνως = what you would have escaped had you but known; or to substantiate the assertion of judicial blindnes...
THE DOOM OF THE ROYAL CITY Luke 19:41-48 Our Lord loved the city of His race; and when it finally rejected His appeals, He knew that nothing could avert its downfall. Hence His tears! Each nation, ci...
Zacchaeus was the last convert but one in the ministry of Jesus. Our Lord's method with him is very revealing. He asked for his hospitality, and after receiving it held an unrecorded conversation with...
_And compass thee, &c. Christ's prophecy is a literal description of what happened to Jerusalem, under Titus. (Witham)_...
TRIUMPHANT ENTRY John 12:12-19; Matthew 21:1-11; Matthew 21:14-17; Luke 19:29-44;...
3 _d. Luke 19:41-44_. _The Lamentations of Jesus._ Jesus has reached the edge of the plateau (ὡς ἤγγισεν); the holy city lies before His view (ἰδὼν τὴν πόλιν). What a day would it be for it, if the ba...
FIRST CYCLE: THE ENTRY OF JESUS INTO JERUSALEM, LUKE 19:28-44. This narrative embraces: 1 _st._ The preparations for the entry (Luke 19:28-36); 2 _d._ The joy of the disciples and of the multitude on...
And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thi...
The last chapter gave in the judgment of present things, another world and eternal things in good and evil, the Lord's instruction for the disciples after the dealings of grace in Luke 15:1-32, and th...
43._For the days shall come upon thee. _He now assumes, as it were, the character of a judge, and addresses Jerusalem with greater severity. In like manner the prophets also, though they shed tears ov...
The history of His last approach to Jerusalem and intercourse with it now commences (Luke 19:35). Here then He presents Himself anew as the Son of David, and for the last time; laying on the conscienc...
FOR THE DAYS SHALL COME UPON THEE,.... Suddenly, and very quickly, as they did within forty years after this: THAT THINE ENEMIES; the Romans, and such the Jews took them to be, and might easily under...
For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, Ver. 43. _For the days shall come_] God hath his days for...
_He beheld the city and wept over it_ As he drew nigh he looked on the city, and, notwithstanding he had already met with much ill usage from its inhabitants, and was at this very juncture to be put t...
THINE ENEMIES; the Romans. COMPASS THEE ROUND; this they did by digging a trench around Jerusalem. See Josephus, Jewish Wars, book 6....
FOR THE DAYS SHALL COME UPON THEE THAT THINE ENEMIES SHALL CAST A TRENCH ABOUT THEE, AND COMPASS THEE ROUND, AND KEEP THEE IN ON EVERY SIDE,...
Christ's lament over Jerusalem:...
ZACCHAEUS RECEIVING THE LORD JESUS (vs.1-10) There was yet another man to be rescued from Jericho, the city of the curse (Joshua 6:26). The Lord, in faithful grace, passed through that city, an avail...
41-48 Who can behold the holy Jesus, looking forward to the miseries that awaited his murderers, weeping over the city where his precious blood was about to be shed, without seeing that the likeness...
Ver. 43,44. It is a plain prophecy of the final destruction of Jerusalem by the Roman armies, which came to pass within less than forty years after. The cause of that dreadful judgment is assigned, BE...
Luke 19:43 For G3754 days G2250 come G2240 (G5692) upon G1909 you G4571 when G2532 your G4675 enemies...
THE RESPONSE OF THE PHARISEES: GOD'S COMING JUDGMENT ON JERUSALEM (19:39-46). It was not to be expected that this hearty welcome of Jesus would please the Pharisees. Perhaps they were afraid of the re...
“For the days will come on you, when your enemies will cast up a bank about you, and surround you, and keep you in on every side, and will dash you to the ground, and your children within you, and the...
Luke 19:41-44. OUR LORD WEEPS OVER JERUSALEM. This incident is related by Luke alone, although similar to Matthew 23:37-39....
Luke agrees closely with the other Evangelists in the account of the entry to Jerusalem. He mentions in addition a murmur of the Pharisees and our Lord's reply (Luke 19:39-40), as well as the fact tha...
Luke 19:43. FOR. This introduces a prophetic proof that these things _were_ hidden; and is also ‘the awful reason for the fervent wish just expressed' (Alford). Because our Lord knew that the judgment...
SHALL CAST UP A BANK (παρεμβαλουσιν χαρακα). Future active indicative of παρεμβαλλω, a double compound (παρα, εν, βαλλω) of long usage, finally in a military sense of line of battle or in camp. Her...
Luke 19:1. And Jesus entered and passed through Jericho. And, behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus, which was the chief among the publicans, and he was rich. And he sought to see Jesus who he was;...
CONTENTS: Conversion of Zaccheus. Parable of the pounds. Triumphal entry. Jesus weeps over Jerusalem. Purification of the temple. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Zacchaeus, Abraham, disciples. CONCLUSION: Th...
Luke 19:11. _He spake a parable, because he was nigh to Jerusalem,_ to correct the fond error of those who thought he would reign on earth. This parable therefore differs from that of the talents, in...
WHEN HE SAW IT HE WEPT OVER IT. Only Luke gives these words. This is a lot like what Jesus predicted _in_ Matthew 24:15-22. Compare notes there. Only one other place speaks of Jesus weeping (John 11:3...
_He beheld the city, and wept over it_ CHRIST WEEPING OVER JERUSALEM I. THE EXCLAMATION OF CHRIST, AND HIS TEARS IN THEIR REJECTION TO THE GUILTY CITY. 1. He remembered days of old. On these sinner...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 19:43 DAYS WILL COME. See note on 21:5–6. A BARRICADE AROUND YOU. Earthworks constructed by the Romans. tear you down... and your chil
CHAPTER 19 VER. 1. _And Jesus entered and passed through Jericho._ S. Luke continues the account of the journey to Jerusalem. I have spoken of this in the preceding chapter, verse 35....
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 19:28. WENT BEFORE.—_I.e._, at the head of the disciples. Cf. Mark 10:32. ASCENDING.—The road from Jericho to Jerusalem is one long ascent. Luke 19:29. BETHPHAGE.—A village appa...
EXPOSITION LUKE 19:1 _Jesus lodges in the house of Zacchaeus, _"_the_ _chief among the publicans_"_ at Jericho. _This episode, which took place at Jericho just before the Lord's entry into Jerusalem...
Now Jesus has entered into Jericho (Luke 19:1). And as He is passing through the city, Behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus, which was the chief among the publicans (Luke 19:2), The city of Jeric...
1 Thessalonians 2:15; 1 Thessalonians 2:16; Daniel 9:26; Daniel 9:27;...
A trench [χ α ρ α κ α]. Rev., correctly, as Tynd., a bank. Only here in New Testament. The word literally means a pointed stake, used in fortifying the intrenchments of a camp, and thence the palisade...
THE MAGNIFICAT TO THE KING Luke 19:28 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. Step by step Christ moved on fulfilling prophecy. The whole life of the Lord Jesus Christ, from the cradle to the ascension, was a marvel...
Thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee around — All this was exactly performed by Titus, the Roman general....
Here we have. prophetical prediction of the total and final destruction of the city of Jerusalem by the Roman armies, who begirt the city round, burnt the temple, starved the people, and brought such...